Re: [Networker] device getting disabled

Hi Don,

A few possibilities here:

A. Faulty SCSI cable
B. Faulty SCSI terminator
C. Dirty tape drive
D. Faulty tape drive

Cleaning tape might helps in this situation.

regards
VL

----- Original Message ----
From: don karnash <donkarnash AT YAHOO DOT COM>
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Sent: Tuesday, January 29, 2008 11:27:15 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] device getting disabled


Hello Vincent,
  Thanks for your suggestions. The output is
  Illegal Request: 0 Predictive Failure Analysis: 0
rmt/0           Soft Errors: 671 Hard Errors: 3 Transport Errors: 2254
Vendor: HP       Product: Ultrium 1-SCSI   Revision: E3BR Serial No:
 C310P.31
rmt/1           Soft Errors: 34 Hard Errors: 0 Transport Errors: 72
Vendor: HP       Product: Ultrium 1-SCSI   Revision: E3BR Serial No:

  I have reset the autoloader a couple of times but drive one gets
 disabled and I see the following error
   
  Solstice Backup Device Disabled: (warning) Device /dev/rmt/0hbn is
 automatically disabled. consecutive errors (21) exceeded the maximum
 consecutive errors allowed. Please fix the device or set a higher value for
 the Max consecutive errors attribute in the device resource.
  

Vincent Lin <vlinx AT YAHOO DOT COM> wrote:
  Try "# iostat -En" see if there is any hardware errors reported
 there.

----- Original Message ----
From: Stan Horwitz 
To: NETWORKER AT LISTSERV.TEMPLE DOT EDU
Sent: Monday, January 28, 2008 10:46:24 AM
Subject: Re: [Networker] device getting disabled


On Jan 27, 2008, at 6:40 PM, don karnash wrote:

> Hello,
> We run solstice 6.1 on solaris 8. The library has two drives/devices

> and one of the devices gets disabled automatically. No changes has 
> been made to solstice or the library. Can anyone please advise what 
> could be wrong.

Check the log files /nsr/messages and /nsr/daemon as well as /var/adm/ 
messages for errors that match up with the times the device is
disabled.

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